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Hellenistic philosophy
About: Hellenistic philosophy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 318 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4722 citations.
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01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: Early Pyrrhonism: 1. Scepticism, tranquillity and virtue 2. Epicureanism: 3. Physics 4. Epistemology 5. Stoicism 6. Ontology logic and semantics 7. Ethics Part IV. Why to suspend judgement.
Abstract: Preface Introduction Part I. Early Pyrrhonism: 1. Scepticism, tranquillity and virtue 2. Timon's polemics Part II. Epicureanism: 3. Physics 4. Epistemology 5. Ethics Part III. Stoicism: 6. The philosophical curriculum 7. Ontology logic and semantics 8. Epistemology (stoics and academics) 9. Physics 10. Ethics Part IV. The Academics: 11. Methodology 12. Living without opinions 13. Contributions to philosophical debates 14. The Pyrrhonist revival 15. Why to suspend judgement 16. How to suspend judgement Bibliography.
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TL;DR: Mimesis and the history of aesthetics is discussed in this paper, with a focus on the rewards of Mimesis: Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Aesthetics.
Abstract: Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Note to the Reader xiii INTRODUCTION: Mimesis and the History of Aesthetics 1 PART I CHAPTER ONE Representation and Reality: Plato and Mimesis 37 CHAPTER TWO Romantic Puritanism: Plato and the Psychology of Mimesis 72 CHAPTER THREE Mimesis and the Best Life: Plato's Repudiation of the Tragic 98 CHAPTER FOUR More Than Meets the Eye: Looking into Plato's Mirror 118 PART II CHAPTER FIVE Inside and Outside the Work of Art: Aristotelian Mimesis Reevaluated 151 CHAPTER SIX The Rewards of Mimesis: Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Aesthetics 177 CHAPTER SEVEN Tragic Pity: Aristotle and Beyond 207 CHAPTER EIGHT Music and the Limits of Mimesis: Aristotle versus Philodemus 234 PART III CHAPTER NINE Truth or Delusion?The Mimeticist Legacy in Hellenistic Philosophy 263 CHAPTER TEN Images of Life: Mimesis and Literary Criticism after Aristotle 287 CHAPTER ELEVEN Renewal and Transformation: Neoplatonism and Mimesis 313 CHAPTER TWELVE An Inheritance Contested: Renaissance to Modernity 344 Bibliography 383 Index 419
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TL;DR: In what sense did the Hellenistic philosophers see themselves as the heirs or critics of Socrates? Was Socrates, in their view, a philosopher on whom Plato was the decisive authority? What doctrines or strategies of Socrates were thoroughly alive in this period? as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In what sense did the Hellenistic philosophers see themselves as the heirs or critics of Socrates? Was Socrates, in their view, a philosopher on whom Plato was the decisive authority? What doctrines or strategies of Socrates were thoroughly alive in this period? These are the principal questions I shall be asking in this paper, particularly the third. To introduce them, and to set the scene, I begin with some general points, starting from two passages which present an image of Socrates at the beginning and at the end of the Hellenistic era. Here first are three lines from the Silloi of the Pyrrhonean Timon of Phlius:From these matters (i.e. the inquiry into nature) he turned aside, the people-chiselling moralising ‘chatterer, the wizard of Greece, whose assertions were sharply pointed, master of the well-turned sneer, a pretty good ironist.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind as mentioned in this paper is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul, an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind.
Abstract: Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul--an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic philosophy of mind so lucidly and authoritatively that specialists and nonspecialists alike will find her book rewarding. In part, the Hellenistic epoch was a "scientific" period that broke with tradition in ways that have an affinity with the modern shift from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present day. Hellenistic philosophy of the soul, Annas argues, is in fact a philosophy of mind, especially in the treatment of such topics as perception, thought, and action.
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